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• There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

  Norah Jones

  Albums, Pressure, Firsts

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• Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are there other parallel dimensions and parallel realities? Time travel that we mentioned and going to the stars.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Reality, Technology

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Pain, Moving, Heart

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• The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Hate, Gay, Doubt

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• In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

  Charles Kuralt

  Light, Fields, Gone

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• To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Running, Lifting Weights

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Mar 18, 2014

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• Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.

  Ray Lewis

  Running, Jobs, Men

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• When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me.

  Eric Liu

  People, Trying, Wow

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• Breakfast is a peaceful moment for me, so I never have the radio on, no music, no noise around. The only noise that is permitted is people's voices. It's a way for me to wake up without too much of a high speed feeling.

  Christian Louboutin

  Voice, People, Peaceful

  "Designer Christian Louboutin Can't Live Without Fruit, Drinks Gallons of Tea". Interview with Leah Chernikoff, www.bonappetit.com. December 24, 2012.

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• If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.

  Arthur Lydiard

  Running, Successful, Thinking

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• You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

  John Malkovich

  Movie, Actors, Rehearsal

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• Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

  Jose Marti

  Insomnia, Ideas, Rolling

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

  Maria Mitchell

  Character, Safety, Southern

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• As people continue to do more and buy more over the Internet, continue to meet people over the Internet, connection speeds are going to get faster, and the Internet is just going to become an even more integral part of people's lives.

  Moby

  People, Connections, Internet

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• In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.

  Alan Moore

  Echoes, Pace, Pieces

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• With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

  Robert Morgan

  Special, Details, Way

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• The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Truth, Communication, Literature

  On receiving the "Family of Man" Award from the Protestant Council of the City of New York, October 28, 1964.

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• The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Communication, Technology, Language

  On receiving the "Family of Man" Award, 1964.

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• If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Block, Gun, Cameras

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• My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.

  Rafael Nadal

  Get Better, Bombs, Variation

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• We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.

  Rafael Nadal

  Winning, Trying, Gears

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• When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

  Patricia Neal

  Heart, Giving, Thoroughbreds

  Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.

  Bob Newhart

  Amusing, Delivery, Accountants

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm relaxed naked as long as there is no one else there. I speed up past mirrors.

  Bill Nighy

  Past, Mirrors

  "Bill Nighy: Five Things I Know About Style". www.theguardian.com. July 04, 2010.

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• Filming 'The Road to Riches' was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Careers, Riches, Painful

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